Foreword: "How we tell about the civil rights movement and why it matters" / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Introduction: Exploring NASA in the "long" civil rights movement / Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring
New frameworks
Space history matures
and reaches a crossroads / Margaret A. Weitekamp
Bringing mankind to the moon: the human rights narrative in the space age / P.J. Blount and David Miguel Molina
Bringing the moon to mankind: the civil rights narrative and the space age / David Miguel Molina and P.J. Blount
Southern context
The newest South: race and space on the Dixie frontier / Brenda Plummer
"Accommodating the forces of change": civil rights and economic development in space age Huntsville, Alabama / Matthew L. Downs
NASA, the Association of Huntsville Area Contractors, and equal employment opportunity in the "Rocket City," 1963-1965 / Brian C. Odom
International context
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Guion Bluford: the last cold war race battle / Cathleen Lewis
The Congressional Black Caucus and the closure of NASA's satellite tracking station at Hartebeesthoek, South Africa / Keith Snedegar
Broader context
"A competence which should be used": NASA, social movements, and social problems in the 1970s / Cyrus C.M. Mody
The gates of opportunity: NASA, black activism, and educational access / Eric Fenrich
"Petite engineer likes math, music" / Christina K. Roberts
Conclusion: "And where do we go from here?" ensuring the past and future history of space / Jonathan Coopersmith.